SERPd.com to Replace Sphinn

The last few days, I’ve been testing a new social voting site named SERPd.com. It’s a replacement for Sphinn since they removed voting earlier this month in an effort to increase participation; seems counter-intuitive. I haven’t been to Sphinn in a few weeks and will likely return less and less for stories because it’s editor-fed.

SERPd, however, is open to submissions, voting, tagging, and convenient sharing features. It’s more socially aware and less publisher-deemed important. More about the announcement here.

It operates very well and includes features like image inclusion (with visible cropping) and a familiar format to social news sites. There’s a bug that throws a PHP error when a non-jpeg image is used for submission inclusion. I’ve found I can back up and choose another image (jpeg) or the default image.

Setup a free account and start submitting, voting and discussing great online marketing stories. If you’re familiar with Sphinn, you’ll be right at home. If not, it only takes a few minutes to get started.

I took a browse at SERPD, but I’ve got a question about it. On Sphinn there was the ability to sphinn or desphinn submitted stories. I didn’t see this option on SERPD, so does that mean you can only “vote up” stories but not vote them down?

I just registered to see how it works. You can vote for something and only AFTER you vote it gives you the option to “un-vote”. Why would you take away a vote after voting for it? Shouldn’t there be a way to vote up then vote down? To me that would be the same concept as sphinn. If I’m going to vote for something I’m not going to nix that vote later.